Comment by ErroneousBosh
2 months ago
I've been saying for years that future archaeologists will wonder at these mysterious emblems they dig up, generally associated with a large deposit of what was once highly refined iron, aluminium and copper. About half a metre wide and 11cm high, made of incredibly durable plastic obviously intended to last for centuries, if not millenia.
And they'll puzzle over the inscriptions, "G809 BGG", "R420 BRL", "RFS 131Y", "SJ12 EXW", "RE51 CUE" - this on some huge chunk of steel, easily three times as big as the rest, and so many others.
What could they mean?
As a non-American, I don’t even understand today what that means. (And the website linked to isn’t loading, so I don’t have the context from that.)
License plates vary between countries but this description should be recognisable to most of the world.
We use "AA AA 1234" or variations of that, so the examples did not register as license plates at all. Interesting.
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I believe those are car license plate numbers.
British ones of various vintage, with RFS 131Y the oldest of those, from 1983.
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"We believe they served some kind of religious purpose."
I mean, <gestures at car culture>...